Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 108
March 24, 2010
In The Wind
When the young Bobby Womack told Sam Cooke he didn't understand [Bob:] Dylan's vocal style, Cooke explained that: "from now on, it's not going to be about how pretty the voice is. It's going to be about believing that the voice is telling the truth."
Only in dreams
I dreamed about you again last night.
I guess it will pass.
March 23, 2010
Crowdsourcing Dickens
As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens's musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict Magwitch, et al.
Creative excellence and spin-worthy results required a pool of 10,000 people who had never read Great Expectations. Fortunately, I had access to 10,000 recent American college graduates, so that was no problem.
To add a dab of pseudoscience and ...
Crowdsourcing Great Expectations
As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens's musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict Magwitch, et al.
Creative excellence and spin-worthy results required a pool of 10,000 people who had never read Great Expectations. Fortunately, I had access to 10,000 recent American college graduates, so that was no problem.
To add a dab of pseudoscience and ...
Hockney and Friends
Circa 1963, Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and David Goodman; photo by Dennis Hopper.
Scads more in "DAVID HOCKNEY | STYLE" at The Selvedge Yard.
March 22, 2010
My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit
Georgia and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write, design, and publish web pages. Yet we designers have always wanted more. As far back as 1994, we hoped for the day when we could brand our layouts as magazine and poster designers do, by setting our pages in Franklin and Garamond, our headlines in Gotham and Rosewood. ...
March 21, 2010
Gowalla My Dreams
What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could be marked up in Microformats and standard HTML on optional detail pages you could visit with a click from your web browser or phone. Heck, while we're at it, let's add Bump, an iPhone app that lets two people share contact data the same way they share...
March 18, 2010
Hate and Love
Left, Mike Monteiro. Right, yours sincerely. Captured at SXSW by Scott Beale.
(My SXSW photos. Scott's SXSW photos.)
March 17, 2010
Ed Bott's Lament
In "IE9: Microsoft's new browser gets no respect at all," ZDNet's Ed Bott sees seething contempt where I intended even-handed calm, and asks why my discussion yesterday of the tone of a months-old IE announcement failed to discuss yesterday's keynote at MIX10, which I didn't see.
Ed, for the record: I didn't see the MIX10 keynote, which took place while I was traveling home from SXSW Interactive and after I wrote "IE9 Preview." I wasn't responding to the keynote. I was...
A SXSW Story
One of the things about SXSW Interactive is that you are constantly meeting new people. One day at breakfast, I was introduced to a friend of a friend, who said:
"Your book is dangerous."
"That's kind of you to say," I replied, "but exactly how is Designing With Web Standards dangerous?"
"Oh," he said. "You didn't write Rework?"
